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The Fantastically Festive December NSD Challenge

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  • Declaring now because everywhere is about to close and I have no intention of leaving the sofa, let alone the house no matter how many skip fulls of yellow sticker items there are just a few minutes walk away.

    So here it is:
    NSD 10 :j

    On Christmas Eve! Unexpected, slightly unbelievable and very very welcome :D

    merry Christmas to all

    Kate x
    LBM 17th Oct13 - SC DMP - DFD 10th Feb 2018
    paid pre-DMP £6146 :D paid with DMP £2275 :D F&F's £700 (£450 discount) £1,000 (£1,498.22 discount) £ 700 (489.62 discount) :D Total £9725

    Current debt to repay £3,503.13 taking one day at a time
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Rampant Recycler Hung up my suit!
    I don't need or want anything else for Christmas, so it's safe to declare


    NSD # 12


    Have a great Christmas everyone
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • 2 more NSD in the bag so my new total is #8NSD


    tomorrow should be another NSD so that would make another 3 in a row but ill update when it happens


    Im well on my way to my target of 12


    having just been paid I shall now in earnest aim to throw anything spare at reducing my credit cards whilst I have 0% interest in them . I shall also set out "pots" for groceries and petrol so NSD will only happen if I spend beyond my pot or outwith these necessities
    if anyone knows of a VERY simple app or programme that I can put what I owe on a spreadsheet type thingy though I know nothing about spreadsheets. as I would love to see the totals coming down as I make my regular payments and any extra ones
    I am also determined to keep track of any spends and write them down as I go (note to self....)


    working night shift tonight so santa may be arriving a little later than normal in the jammy dodger household


    have a super Christmas eve folks and hope that santa is good to each and every one of you


    JD xx



  • kerri_gt
    kerri_gt Posts: 11,202 Forumite
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    Declaring now because everywhere is about to close and I have no intention of leaving the sofa, let alone the house no matter how many skip fulls of yellow sticker items there are just a few minutes walk away.

    So here it is:
    NSD 10 :j

    On Christmas Eve! Unexpected, slightly unbelievable and very very welcome :D

    merry Christmas to all

    Kate x

    I just got back from M&S, my goodness, it was a bit like an A$da on a sunday at 3.30pm, but with half the crowd thinking they were better than everyone else - I was in danger of being strangled by someone's string pearls I reckon. Not actually much that I fancied, some nice bits if you were going to get them anyway but I just came out with some crab gratin for me and OH tonight for £2.50. Quite a lot of veg and turkey there though, going to work out roughly what it would have all cost vs what I have spent on dinner this year and then think about getting it like that for 2014. If my nerves can take it that is!

    Also popped into Sainsbobs, couple of bits there (incl a nice loaf that I have managed to cut in half lengthways with the packaging from my yellow label pork chops :mad:) and now home to batten down the hatches.

    Deff going to have to get back on the NSD bandwagon come Jan, seem to have just spent, spent, spent this month. Need to reorganise and make a last push at those debts in 2014. Good news is that we've just made the last payment on what was a big loan :j although there's things to pay still, that gives us a little more flexibility and breathing space each month.
    Feb 2015 NSD Challenge 8/12
    JAN NSD 11/16


  • NSD 11 for me today! And I'm gonna go ahead and claim tomorrow as 12 and my target achieved as there is no way I am leaving the house (or switching the computer on) tomorrow :D

    Merry Christmas everyone!
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    Credit card debt free! Now on the journey to mortgage free.
  • Butti
    Butti Posts: 5,014 Forumite
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    [NSD 4 & 5 yesterday and today please. May even get another tomorrow!
    Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
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  • Running in to declare NSD 11:j

    Kate x
    LBM 17th Oct13 - SC DMP - DFD 10th Feb 2018
    paid pre-DMP £6146 :D paid with DMP £2275 :D F&F's £700 (£450 discount) £1,000 (£1,498.22 discount) £ 700 (489.62 discount) :D Total £9725

    Current debt to repay £3,503.13 taking one day at a time
  • slowlyfading
    slowlyfading Posts: 13,429 Forumite
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    NSD 14 was yesterday, and NSD 15 is today :)

    Happy Christmas everyone :D
    Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
    Personal Finance Blogger + YouTuber / In pursuit of FIRE
  • NSD 12 and target achieved today! Hitting up the sales at 5.30 am tomorrow with some Christmas money (new clothes for work are needed, new job with much more formal dress code). Merry Christmas everyone!
    Novuna personal finance 0% 4-year £518/£1866
    Credit card debt free! Now on the journey to mortgage free.
  • Hmm,lets see:what are the called?
    Spend days no....
    um,
    days spend no,
    er,no:that doesnt sound right.
    Um ,gosh,what are they called?..................................................thinking........................................thinking........................................................thinking..........................................................................................
    GOT IT: NO SPEND DAYS!!!
    Phew,just remembered them!!!!!
    That's it,just had a No Spend Day!!
    NUMBER 6 today.
    Wow,must go and practice some more,if I cant even remember what they're called!!!:rotfl:

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